We feel greatly honored to have an online Distinguished Lecture given by Professor Sam H. Noh of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology for ShanghaiTech University on 25 November. The lecture was titled Peripherals No More. Chundong hosted the lecture and Professor Noh shared his renowned research works on SSDs and persistent memory.

Professor Sam H.(Hyuk) Noh is a prominent computer scientist in the domain of computer systems and data storage. He received the PhD degree from University of Maryland, College Park, MD, in 1993. After spending a year as a faculty at the George Washington University, he moved to Hongik University, Seoul, Korea where he was faculty until 2015. Then he joined Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) where he is a Professor and the inaugural Dean of the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence in the College of Information and Biotechnology. Prof. Noh has served as General Chair, Program Chair, and Program Committee Member on a number of technical conferences and workshops including USENIX ATC, USENIX FAST, ACM Eurosys, ACM SOSP, ACM ASPLOS, USENIX OSDI, and WWW, among others. He has also been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Storage since the summer of 2016. His current research interests include OS issues pertaining to computer systems with a focus on the use of new memory technologies such as flash memory and persistent memory. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of USENIX.

Please click this link for more details of the lecture. It is one of the series of SIST Distinguished Lectures supported by SIST, ShanghaiTech.